Down Undercover: An Englishman In Australia

PART I: ARRIVAL   An Englishman in Australia feels oddly at home. A stroll down the clean, wide pavements of Adelaide will carry frequent snatches of British accents to him on the wind, and his turns of phrase, slang and

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Recess week in Southeast Asia

As I mentioned in my last post, Singapore is in a great location to travel to other countries. Two weeks ago we had our Spring Break, locally referred to as recess week, so I took the opportunity to travel around

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Studying at NUS

As the semester here is coming to an end, I’ll write a bit about the academic part of the exchange. School of Computing and NUS for that matter, is one of the best in Asia, so naturally I had to

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Semester is coming to an end – A few reflections.

It’s only 3 weeks left till the end of semester and all the deadlines are accumulating towards the end. Can’t believe the time here passes so quickly. I remember just arriving and suddenly it’s already end of semester. I have

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Singapore – First Impressions and Food

After a lot of uncertainty and minute fears, Radek and I finally met each other and took off towards what could possibly be the best academic year so far. Especially for me, since I’m doing my last year here. The flight was

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My First Weeks in Singapore

After finally landing (after 21 hour flight with 8 hour transit in Qatar) in Singapore Changi Airport all that was left to do was to pass through the immigration check. At first I was a bit nervous as to wether

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